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Fitness implications of sex-specific catch-up growth in Nephila senegalensis, a spider with extreme reversed SSD

BACKGROUND: Animal growth is often constrained by unfavourable conditions and divergences from optimal body size can be detrimental to an individual’s fitness, particularly in species with determinate growth and a narrow time-frame for life-time reproduction. Growth restriction in early juvenile sta...

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Autores principales: Neumann, Rainer, Ruppel, Nicole, Schneider, Jutta M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158981
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4050